Search Results: Authors starting with V from Goodbar Books

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle shelf-wear. Cover design by Craig Carl. 232 pp. Scholarly.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Some foxing to the first and last leaves. Very little wear overall. Includes B&W photos. 16 pp. Natural History.

In lovely shape: Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of very subtle staining to the exterior boards. No notable wear to the Mylar-protected jacket. Incredible jacket design by Gary Gore. 113 pp. Fiction.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Former owner stamp to the half-title, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Light shelf-wear. Includes B&W figures. 203 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Prices to back cover are blacked out. Minor shelf-wear. Includes B&W figures and illustrations. 216 pp. Esoterica.

Spine is tight and uncreased. Interior is clean and unmarked. Corners are fairly sharp. Only some very minor edge-wear and a former owner label to the inside front cover. Lovely mid-century design to this one, with thoughtful title page and nice cover. 279 pp. Literary Biography.

Inscribed by van Dresser to verso of first blank leaf: 'Peter van Dresser/El Rito–/Summer 1974'. Tight, square, uncreased spine. A phone number written in ink to the last blank leaf. Interior else unmarked except for three very small areas of soiling. Moderate wear to the wraps, including a cosmetic chip to the spine and an area of adhesive remainder to the back cover. Includes B&W figures and illustrations. 128 pp. Scholarly.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Corners are fairly sharp overall. Some gentle edge-wear and a couple small areas of rubbing to the back cover and spine. Beautifully designed and printed Penguin Classic. Includes Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, and The Bacchae. 234 pp. Penguin.

Interior is clean and unmarked. Text block is still square and tightly bound, although there is fairly heavy damage to the spine exterior, which has separated from the text block and been repaired with clear tape. There is also some fading to the wraps, as well as as some other minor shelf-wear. Former owner stamp to the first blank leaf. Features a B&W frontispiece depicting Bernhardt with the author. 316 pp. Journalism.

Tight spine, with only the subtlest lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Very minor shelf-wear. Gilt to spine remains bright. Jacket has some edge-wear and areas of light sunning and soiling. Extremely scarce. 212 pp. Fiction.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of rubbing, edge-wear, and light creasing to the covers. Includes B&W photos and illustrations. 89 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. No notable wear to the book. Only very light shelf-wear to the jacket. First published as Züruck zu den Sternen in 1968 in Berlin by Econ-Verlag. Translated by Michael Heron. After serving time for fraud following an Egyptian jewelry deal, von Däniken took up work as a night manager at a Davos hotel, where he labored over Chariots of the Gods? while the guests slept, putting the manuscript through a rigorous editing—some say rewriting—process with former Nazi propagandist Utz Uterman before its publication and subsequent success. This followup, Gods from Outer Space, was written while von Däniken was in prison for embezzling money from that same hotel; this sentence was commuted after one year, ending his one last tangle with the law before he was released and richly rewarded for his work in promulgating the now ubiquitous alien gods ideology. Generously illustrated and featuring a typo-maximalist book jacket collaboration between Judith Leeds,… Read More

Tight, square spine has some cosmetic creasing. Former owner name to the title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some light edge-wear and rubbing to the covers, but nice solid copy overall. Cover design by Jan Luss. In 1933, at the age of 18, von Franz was invited along with seven of her classmates to Carl Jung's Bollingen Tower, a 'decisive encounter' in the young woman's life which precipitated an understanding of the profound reality of myths and symbols. Von Franz went on to train under Jung, doing translation work in payment for his mentorship and attempting to decipher alchemical manuscripts, an experience that would influence her later analyses of phenomena including the I Ching, the visions of Saint Perpetua, and, as articulated in this book, aspects of femininity implicit in folktales and fairy stories. 200 pp. Myth.

Tight spine has a very slight lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Some bumped corners, but no other notable wear to the book. Jacket is toned/sunned and has areas of creasing and very heavy edge-wear. 'A Seymour Lawrence book.' Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Author photo by Bossi. 190 pp. Fiction.